buffer

Summary

Read-only. Gets the ArrayBuffer that is referenced by this view.

Syntax

var arrayBuffer = dataView.buffer;

Examples

The following example shows how to get the length of the ArrayBuffer underlying the DataView.

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
     req.open('GET', "http://www.example.com");
     req.responseType = "arraybuffer";
     req.send();

     req.onreadystatechange = function () {
         if (req.readyState === 4) {
             var buffer = req.response;
             var dataView = new DataView(buffer);
             alert(dataView.buffer.byteLength)
         }
     }

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: Article